Gossip Girl - 1x07 "Victor, Victoria"

[fembuck]

GOSSIP GIRL! Thank god you're back! I missed you so much last week, bb. Never leave me again.

Favorite Moments

Dan's nightmare about sucking at losing his virginity to Serena (and Isabel and Kati scoring him), LOL

Um, Serena straddling Dan and attacking him like a cougar ... pretty hot! Okay, really Blake's ass is hot, that scene was all about Blake's wiggling ass. I was about as aware of Penn as I was the mattress.
(though her assertion that "20 minutes is more than enough" is a really really sad comment on the prowess of Nate the guys she's slept with before)

Nate's mom's denial. Heartbreaking.

OMG! Dan watching porn to practice for Serena FTW! The interweb really is for porn yo!

Blair-Bear! bb, you are so much better than Nate. Seriously, every time I start to feel bad for Nate he makes Blair-Bear cry and I hate him again!

Dan deconstructing the S/N love scene to figure how to do it, was meta, awesome and kind of gay (Dan to imaginary Nate: do I have to keep my shirt open and billowing like that?)

Vanessa is a fortune cookie. A very pretty fortune cookie, but I'm tired of her being a hot version of the Oracle from The Matrix. *waits for Vanessa to bake oatmeal cookies and warn Dan he's going to bump into an table*

And Nate's dad is officially CaptainNot!Awesome. Worst dad ever, I feel like getting Eleanor a parent of the year award after watching this guy (*remembers Eleanor blatantly lying to Blair about Nate wanting is mother's engagement ring for her* Uh, actually I take that back. Eleanor sucks elephant cock too.

Chuck's dad accepting his comment gracefully when Chuck was all like "Lily believed me so quickly because you're kind of an ass".

Blair dumping Nate. Heartbreaking, but ultimately for the best.

Blair's idea of escape is going to watch half-dressed girls dancing around? Awesome!
(but Blair, bb, telling Chuck to 'guard your drink' is a sure fire way to end up naked in a hotel room in a puddle of your own drool)

Blair burlesque dancing! The over the shoulder look *faints*!
" You go baby vamp" indeed! Seriously, you know you're hot when the Drag Queens are like "you work it girl!"

Also, I kind of hate to say it, but ... Blair and Chuck are kind of hot together. She was smiling around him and we all know how I feel about Leighton's smile. Plus, he was looking at her like she was sex personified and really that's how it should be. It was kind of hot to see Chuck really appreciating how hot Blair is, like being all awed by it.

Serena being nervous about being with Dan, and admitting that she didn't think the other guys she was with looked at her at all let alone with the tenderness Dan looked at her with. *aww*

Lily and Rufus staring at the shapes on the ceiling.

Blair and Chuck in the limo. Um, Blair might not be able to outshine Serena, but Leighton totally just outsexed Blake. Seriously, we need more scenes of Blair making out, with her strap slipping ... the strap slipping is key.

Damn, Gossip Girl, what the hell is up with you making me dig all of these het pairing? Waldsen is totally gonna say my fic pairing, but you are making some very delightful on screen pairing as well. I don't think I've ever liked so many of the canon pairing on one show.

Favorite Quotes:

Blair: Chuck Bass, I do believe your years of underage partying and boozing have paid off
(Leighton's delivery of this line rules)

Rufus responding to Jenny's vague question: Yeah, I think I saw it by that ambiguous big thing over by the nondescript place.
(Oh Rufus, looks, the voice, and humor. I heart you)

Random Girl: Hey, Serena, why don't you get a room!
(LOL, Serena really is an exhibitionist ... and horny)

GG: But can Brooklyn keep up with the Uptown Express?
(Oh, GG you are so right. Serena is SO too much woman for Dan)

Bart Bass: What with the business formal. Are you being arraigned for something?

Blair: Well, it's not High School Musical scandalous.

Serena to Blair: No, mom. We haven't!

Blair's response to Dan trying to slow things down with Serena: Only with you, I can't imagine why.
(Hello, subtext *waves* I missed you)

Blair on the dress Eleanor wanted her to wear: Yes, it'd be very nice. If I was sailing up on the Mayflower.

Blair: Game recognizes game Little J.
(Blair channeling Riley Freeman is the BESTEST!  Game recognizes game Little J, and you lookin' kinda unfamiliar!  Oh, ghetto Blair. I heart you)


(remembers the Writer's Strike and cries)

Comments

[sinandmisery.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting for this ep since I read about Blair's Burlesque Revue! Oh Canada, how I love thee for giving me the ep a few hours early! *waits patiently for torrents*

Except...yeah I can't wrap my head around Blair/Chuck. Maybe I'll just have to see...

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting for this ep since I read about Blair's Burlesque Revue!

It's really good. Leighton is like a goddess in that scene. She just oozes sex. It kind of reminded me of Catherine Zeta-Jones in the All That Jazz number in Chicago, just really sensuous and beautiful.

Except...yeah I can't wrap my head around Blair/Chuck. Maybe I'll just have to see...

I felt the same way about Blair/Chuck before the episode. I was actually kind of repulsed by the idea, but damn by the end of the episode I was totally into them. Mostly I think it has to do with the fact that Blair was happy and feeling sexy, and that Chuck rocks the bedroom eyes. I'm not a shipper, but it was fun to watch them.

[sinandmisery.livejournal.com]

*dead from description of Leighton's sexiness*

Blair was happy and feeling sexy

Note to writers: Blair can be happy!sexy with Serena.

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

*dead from description of Leighton's sexiness*

It's definitely a heart stopper. Seriously, the over the shoulder look slayed me with it's hotness.

Note to writers: Blair can be happy!sexy with Serena.

I know! During the Serena/Dan "nobody's looked at me like that before" scene, I was like 1) I not true, Blair looks at you like that all the time! and 2) everything that's going on would be a hundred times hotter and sweeter and squee worthy if she was with Blair. Seriously, just imagining Leighton in Penn's place in that scene is ... ... ... *um, I think I'm gonna stay in that fantasy world a bit longer actually* ... ... ...

[sinandmisery.livejournal.com]

Blair looks at you like that all the time!

She so does!

*um, I think I'm gonna stay in that fantasy world a bit longer actually*

If you return from that fantasy world, you should bring fic with you!! ;)

[kosmos8.livejournal.com]

not true, Blair looks at you like that all the time!

Wow. You're RIGHT. I didn't even think of that. Serena you doofus you.

[novak_fan]

Blair burlesque dancing! The over the shoulder look *faints*!

I have been waiting for that scene alone all the two damn weeks! Stupid previews, you're a tease.
Also I think I liked Blair/Chuck since the beginning, even without having seen the scene you're talking about. Still I have my doubts about S/D, I like both a lot but I'm not so sure if I like them together. Time will tell.
Also I noticed one thing...no Waldsen?! *pouts*

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

Also I think I liked Blair/Chuck since the beginning, even without having seen the scene you're talking about.

I think it was my Waldsen block stopping me from seeing the possibilities. Thinking back on it, I remember thinking they made an awesomely delicious evil duo when they were planning Serena's demise in the third episode.

Still I have my doubts about S/D, I like both a lot but I'm not so sure if I like them together. Time will tell.

Yeah. I like both characters individually but they're just okay together. Mostly, I think it's because Blake and Penn are both pretty charismatic, but I don't buy the heat between the two characters. I think they have better friend chemistry than couple chemistry. So I don't mind watching them, but I'm not really invested in them.

Also I noticed one thing...no Waldsen?! *pouts*

There was some Waldsen bonding early in the episode and a little subtext with Blair commenting that she couldn't understand Dan wanting to wait to have sex when he was with Serena. But they were split up with separate story lines for most of the episode (which was surprising considering all Blair went through, I thought that she'd call Serena a couple times throughout the episode but she never did)

[novak_fan]

Yeah. I like both characters individually but they're just okay together. Mostly, I think it's because Blake and Penn are both pretty charismatic, but I don't buy the heat between the two characters. I think they have better friend chemistry than couple chemistry. So I don't mind watching them, but I'm not really invested in them.

Exactly my thoughts. I don't see that roma chemistry between them for the life of me, bff yes, I lot even, but more than that? not so much. I think that I'm most interested on seeing the Vanessa/Dan development in this case.

There was some Waldsen bonding early in the episode and a little subtext with Blair

*sigh* Well, a little it's always better than nothing at all. Still I miss the Bleighton awesoness that seems to be lacking this days :(

[gespawcho.livejournal.com]

well..f.

i wanted to remain unspoiled but you lured me. I don't really want to get into anything til I watch, but uh, the comment where Blair tells Serena "i can't imagine why"

could it be construed as an insult to S, like, You're so easy, why would he not take advantage.

Or was it full on subtext?

[fembuck.livejournal.com]

could it be construed as an insult to S, like, You're so easy, why would he not take advantage. Or was it full on subtext?

Don't worry, it was a subtexty compliment.

Serena was like "Is it possible for a guy to want to slow things down?"

And Blair was all "Only the guys we like" and they laughed.

And then Blair added "Only with you, I can't imagine why" and Serena looked all bashful.

Blair was basically saying "You're so fucking sexy I can't comprehend how someone would not throw you down and ravage you given the slightest opportunity. I certainly would".

Blair-bear, I think you should SHOW Serena how sexy she is ... in an eraser room on a bed, naked! I mean, lord knows I now know Blair can be aggressive and totally throw down and it's so much more satisfying when she's throwing down with Serena.

[sinandmisery.livejournal.com]

Blair-bear, I think you should SHOW Serena how sexy she is ... in an eraser room on a bed, naked!

The Eraser room does two things: Cleans erasers and takes our innocence.

[kosmos8.livejournal.com]

Honestly... even in an ep with such little S/B screen time together, they still manage to make that tiny moment completely subtext-y.

I realised with this ep that this entire show is pretty much all about Leighton/Blair for me. I'd always kind of hoped that she'd take it all off and let her hair down (literally and figuratively) for the first time for Serena -- but Chuck got to her first!! I'm kinda torn about that.

looking at her like she was sex personified and really that's how it should be. It was kind of hot to see Chuck really appreciating how hot Blair is

You're totally right here; however, parts of my brain were thinking, "shouldn't Chuck have seen it all already?" but if you compare him to Serena and how she was saying "no one's ever looked at me like that" in spite of her so-called experience, it stands to reason that something out there can still impress a jaded Chuck Bass. Which THEN begs the question "what took him so long to see it??"

Also, the idea of the mother/daughter getting it on with father/son thing made me gag a little, so I was kinda relieved no sex ended up actually taking place between those pairs. (well, obviously there are other reasons I was relieved for no sex between Dan and Serena)

Finally, can Vanessa just get some love already instead of just dispensing good advice to everyone else? Physician heal thyself! And all that.

[billy-rose.livejournal.com]

wait.. that writers strike affects ALL of hollyweird?
*worries for show if it continues too long*

oh, I loved the bit where Blair went, "You're dismissed Jenny. For good."
*sigh*
gonna have to kidnap blair one of these days... it's truly the only solution to any problem ever
except kidnapping charges.. hmm...

[memorylapses.livejournal.com]

total agreement on everything!!

dark!Blair was beyond hot. you should write a fic where Serena was there at the club to witness it, that could lead to all kinds of hotness. I just had to pitch that because you're my favorite Blair/Serena writer.

but Leighton totally just outsexed Blake. Seriously, we need more scenes of Blair making out
WORD. Chuck was there but let's face it, Leighton owned that scene.
she brought it to that level of hotness.

[warmwhispers]

So I came to your LJ 'cause I love your Waldsen fics over at the fanfic communities, and I was reading your episode reviews earlier today and I just thought I'd tell you this! See, I'm rewatching the episode right now, and the first time I watched it, when Vanessa was listing (to Dan) all the people Serena supposedly has had sexual experiences with, I so heard "best friends, boyfriends" instead of "best friends' boyfriends".. I kinda went "WTF, did she really just say that?!" and then I thought of Serena + Blair + sex and there were many, many pleasant mental images. Oh yes.

But I'm probably the only one pervy enough to have misunderstood that comment, haha.